H e m p e l Coatings
Announces C h a n g es

Thor Bakke, president and CEO of Hempel Coatings (USA), Inc., has announced changes in the management and national organization.

The U.S. market area has been split into three regional sections: an Eastern Region, where Joel Benetti, located at Rutherford, N.J., has been appointed regional manager; a Southern Region, with Tim LaBorde, located at New Orleans, L.A., as regional manager; and a Western Region, with David Leggett as regional manager, operating out of the new office in the Long Beach, Calif., area.

Robert Cory has been appointed industrial marketing manager with the overall responsibility for the industrial market in the U.S.A.

George Seith, former division manager out of Houston, has been appointed executive assistant and will be the executive advisor in the future expansion program for the Hempel organization in the U.S.A.

All appointed promotions have been internally recruited from the Hempel organization.